Azithromycin appears to reduce treatment failure in severe, acute COPD exacerbations
Credit: ATS May 3, 2019--The antibiotic azithromycin may reduce treatment failure in patients hospitalized for an acute exacerbation of chronic ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Global disaster experts to gather in Brisbane
The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Management Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine is on in Brisbane, Australia next ...
Keynote on firearm injury to Open Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meeting
DES PLAINES, IL -- Leading firearm injury and prevention experts, Drs. Rebecca Cunningham, and Garen Wintemute, will open SAEM19 -- ...
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine announces annual meeting plenary speakers, top abstracts
DES PLAINES, IL-- Emergency medicine academicians in six plenary presentations will explore a variety of subjects related to the practice ...
Children’s NICU slashes unintended extubation rates by 60% over 10 years
Accidentally dislodged breathing tube is fourth-most common adverse event in the nation's NICUsCredit: Children's National WASHINGTON-(April 26, 2019)-A quality-improvement project ...
Mount Sinai researchers find significant delays in West Nile virus reporting
Delays impact accurate infectious disease forecasting (New York, NY - April 26, 2019) --Mount Sinai researchers found significant delays in ...
Quality improvement in emergency surgery shows no difference in patient survival
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London studied the effectiveness of one of the largest ever national quality improvement programmes ...
Stroke patients receive different amounts of physical therapy
Patients who receive more physical therapy are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, yet the ...
Low mobility predicts hospital readmission in older heart attack patients
Close to 20% of elderly adults who have suffered a heart attack will be readmitted to the hospital within 30 ...
Patients with cancer seen in the emergency department have better outcomes at original hospital
Visual abstract link: http://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1503/cmaj.180962/-/DC2 Patients with cancer requiring emergency department care had better outcomes at their original hospital or a ...
No increase in complications with ‘tummy tuck’ in obese patients
April 22, 2019 - "Tummy tuck" surgery (abdominoplasty) can be safely performed in obese patients, with no increase in complications ...
Sugar entering the brain during septic shock causes memory loss
Research gives clear target for drug development and further study into memory lossCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- The ...
Vanderbilt University to develop and test ‘safe harbor’ standards of care
A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University's schools of Law, Medicine and Management has received a five-year research grant from ...
A ‘virtual’ view with a little bit of math
MU scientists advance a way to track changes in a person's cardiovascular systemCredit: University of Missouri Every heart beat sends ...
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